Romita Choudhury
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 282909 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Romita Choudhury |
| NOMBRES | Romita |
| APELLIDO | Choudhury |
| FIRMA | CHOUDHURY R |
| AFILIACIONES | Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1771-1795 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Passage to Europe
It is because we could not write that it came to you
For feminist historiography, polyphonic women's testimonials of resistance struggles present several critical questions, most importantly about the mediating role of the feminist intellectuals who conduct the interviews, translate, edit, write, and analyse the testimonies. The extended editorial commentaries in a collection of testimonies by women who participated in an armed peasant revolt in India from 1945 to 1951 traces and critiques the assu…
Beyond Babel
Scholarship largely holds that the “Persianate world”—a transregional sphere of cultural exchange mediated by an Indian Ocean lingua franca—was put paid to by a colonizing English East India Company. Against that historiography, this article reveals how colonial and Indo-Persian modern textual trends were coproduced. Reading a first-person account of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, written in 1815–17 by a prince from a Mughal successor state under …
Hajj across Empires
Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it, creating new ideas of religion and rule. Examinin…
Tipu and the Turks
In 1786, several hundred subjects of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–99), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in southern India, travelled to the Ottoman Empire on a diplomatic mission. This essay revisits the embassy's travels, and travails, across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean by drawing attention to a rich cache of administrative documents. I suggest that this collection, hitherto unexamined, can illuminate some significant aspects of diplomatic conduct and pr…
Imperial Mecca
Journal Article Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low Get access Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020; pp. 416. $105). Rishad Choudhury Rishad Choudhury Oberlin College, OH, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, c…
Wahhabis without Religion; or, A Genealogy of Jihadis in Colonial Law, 1818 to 1857
This article offers a new interpretation of the “Indian Wahhabi” beyond an ostensibly religious identity. Examining encounters between a centralizing state and decentralized circulatory regimes, the study thus illuminates an overlooked sociolegal genealogy of the jihadi militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia…
The standardised cancer booklet and beyond
Objective: This qualitative study engaged with breast cancer patients to create a standardised cancer education booklet. This paper identifies lessons from that engagement process, showing how patients experienced their cancer education and how they were able to ensure their concerns and priorities were included in the standardised patient education booklet. Method: In semi-structured focus groups and interviews, patients reviewed the print mater…
Loss and recovery after concussion
BACKGROUND: Most concussion studies have focused on the perspectives and expertise of health-care providers and caregivers. Very little qualitative research has been done, engaging the adolescents who have suffered concussion and continue to experience the consequences in their everyday life. OBJECTIVE: To understand the experiences of recovery from the perspective of adolescent patients of concussion and to present the findings through their voi…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
The Hajj and the Hindi
This article charts several historical paths, hitherto underexplored, through the Hindi or 'Indian' Sufi lodges of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century (circa1695-1808)', it tracks their remarkable ascendance as an institutional network for mobile and migrant Indian Sufi pilgrims. From Istanbul to the provinces, the article demonstrates how Naqshbandis and Qadiris on the Hajj circuit drew on local channels of social commun…
An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife
This essay seeks to illuminate the ‘biography’ of an early modern frontier in Chittagong, Bengal. It unravels the political rise and cultural reification of the frontier by revisiting, through multiple perspectives and successive stages, the final years in the life of a Mughal prince, Muhammad Sultan Shah Shuja‘ (1616–60?). I suggest that the language of a state frontier emerged from an ‘eventful’ conjuncture: a war of succession that caused Prin…
An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife
This essay seeks to illuminate the ‘biography’ of an early modern frontier in Chittagong, Bengal. It unravels the political rise and cultural reification of the frontier by revisiting, through multiple perspectives and successive stages, the final years in the life of a Mughal prince, Muhammad Sultan Shah Shuja‘ (1616–60?). I suggest that the language of a state frontier emerged from an ‘eventful’ conjuncture: a war of succession that caused Prin…
The Hajj and the Hindi
This article charts several historical paths, hitherto underexplored, through the Hindi or 'Indian' Sufi lodges of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century (circa1695-1808)', it tracks their remarkable ascendance as an institutional network for mobile and migrant Indian Sufi pilgrims. From Istanbul to the provinces, the article demonstrates how Naqshbandis and Qadiris on the Hajj circuit drew on local channels of social commun…
Imperial Mecca
Journal Article Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low Get access Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020; pp. 416. $105). Rishad Choudhury Rishad Choudhury Oberlin College, OH, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, c…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife
This essay seeks to illuminate the ‘biography’ of an early modern frontier in Chittagong, Bengal. It unravels the political rise and cultural reification of the frontier by revisiting, through multiple perspectives and successive stages, the final years in the life of a Mughal prince, Muhammad Sultan Shah Shuja‘ (1616–60?). I suggest that the language of a state frontier emerged from an ‘eventful’ conjuncture: a war of succession that caused Prin…
The Hajj and the Hindi
This article charts several historical paths, hitherto underexplored, through the Hindi or 'Indian' Sufi lodges of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century (circa1695-1808)', it tracks their remarkable ascendance as an institutional network for mobile and migrant Indian Sufi pilgrims. From Istanbul to the provinces, the article demonstrates how Naqshbandis and Qadiris on the Hajj circuit drew on local channels of social commun…
New histories of political violence and revolutionary terrorism in modern South Asia
This book round table discusses two recent monographs on political violence and revolutionary terrorism in late colonial India, Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 (2017). Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India uncovers how revolutionaries in Punjab and northern India res…
The standardised cancer booklet and beyond
Objective: This qualitative study engaged with breast cancer patients to create a standardised cancer education booklet. This paper identifies lessons from that engagement process, showing how patients experienced their cancer education and how they were able to ensure their concerns and priorities were included in the standardised patient education booklet. Method: In semi-structured focus groups and interviews, patients reviewed the print mater…
Loss and recovery after concussion
BACKGROUND: Most concussion studies have focused on the perspectives and expertise of health-care providers and caregivers. Very little qualitative research has been done, engaging the adolescents who have suffered concussion and continue to experience the consequences in their everyday life. OBJECTIVE: To understand the experiences of recovery from the perspective of adolescent patients of concussion and to present the findings through their voi…
Wahhabis without Religion; or, A Genealogy of Jihadis in Colonial Law, 1818 to 1857
This article offers a new interpretation of the “Indian Wahhabi” beyond an ostensibly religious identity. Examining encounters between a centralizing state and decentralized circulatory regimes, the study thus illuminates an overlooked sociolegal genealogy of the jihadi militant in colonial India. From 1818, the East India Company secured its sovereignty by designating as deviant or permissible a host of itinerant figures in and around South Asia…
Tipu and the Turks
In 1786, several hundred subjects of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–99), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in southern India, travelled to the Ottoman Empire on a diplomatic mission. This essay revisits the embassy's travels, and travails, across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean by drawing attention to a rich cache of administrative documents. I suggest that this collection, hitherto unexamined, can illuminate some significant aspects of diplomatic conduct and pr…
Imperial Mecca
Journal Article Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low Get access Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, by Michael Christopher Low (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020; pp. 416. $105). Rishad Choudhury Rishad Choudhury Oberlin College, OH, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, c…
Beyond Babel
Scholarship largely holds that the “Persianate world”—a transregional sphere of cultural exchange mediated by an Indian Ocean lingua franca—was put paid to by a colonizing English East India Company. Against that historiography, this article reveals how colonial and Indo-Persian modern textual trends were coproduced. Reading a first-person account of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, written in 1815–17 by a prince from a Mughal successor state under …
Hajj across Empires
Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it, creating new ideas of religion and rule. Examinin…
It is because we could not write that it came to you
For feminist historiography, polyphonic women's testimonials of resistance struggles present several critical questions, most importantly about the mediating role of the feminist intellectuals who conduct the interviews, translate, edit, write, and analyse the testimonies. The extended editorial commentaries in a collection of testimonies by women who participated in an armed peasant revolt in India from 1945 to 1951 traces and critiques the assu…
A Passage to Europe
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